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John P. Phillips · Post by **John P. Phillips** » 27 May 2001 4:47 am

I have gotten an amp setup from my teenage son to use with my first steel and I don't know exactly what I've got. He got it from a friend a couple of years ago and no longer uses it. AS FOLLOWS:

Speaker cabinet- enclosed with the label MARSHALL with 2 - 12's CELESTION G12T-75 speakers, model T3760 16 ohm

AMP - TRIUMPH 60 T/B Tube amp Made by PEAVEY
Electronics - uses a 3-switch pedal with switches as follows:
1 - ultra - crunch
2 - by-pass - clean
3 - select - reverb

Any info you folks could give me would be appreciated. Will this do O.K for a beginning steeler and do I have a JEWEL or just a "Pig in a poke".
THANKS

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"LET'S GO STEEL SOMETHING" If it feels good, DO IT, if it feels "COUNTRY", do it TWICE
JPP

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Robert · Post by **Robert** » 27 May 2001 5:11 am

John:
Sounds like you've got somebody's "heavy metal/shred" rig - a high-gain set-up like that probably won't suit the steel, but if you already have it, try it. Find the cleanest, warmest settings you can and give it a go.

Rob

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 27 May 2001 4:15 pm

It will do for a start. You'll probably find that the "crunch" channel is pretty useless for steel, but the clean one with the mids backed off should give a decent tone.

Glenn Austin · Post by **Glenn Austin** » 28 May 2001 7:42 am

The amp head would probably do a good enough job, but you will find that the speakers are not voiced correctly.My first steel amp was a marshall 50 watt, and it could get that glassy on the verge of breaking up sound, but the Celestions had a real tubby, honking type of sound.I could never Eq it properly.

Ken Fox · Post by **Ken Fox** » 28 May 2001 8:15 am

I have one of these with a 12" Scorpion. When I got this amp several years ago it sounded awful, no bottom. Records indicated that a local music store had replaced noisy preamp tubes and the switching relay. They had not gotten even close to the problem! The switching problem was just a cold solder joint on a coupling cap to the final inverter tube! The tubes they put in were cheap Chinese tubes. I put ina set of matched Groove tubes(6L6GC) and N.O.S. RCA preamp tubes. On the clean channel this amp now rivals a Twin Reverb for tone! Good tubes do make a difference. I agree about the speakers. A good 15" Black Widow, JBL, Scorpion, EV would be a good choice. The amps two drive channels are jsut plain heavy metal overkill. The clean channel @ 60watts RMS should do a good job. I played for several years with a steel player that used a silverface Super Reverb (60 watts, I believe, two 6L6GC, just like the Triumph)with a 15" Cerwin Vega. His sound was really good! Best of luck and keep on pickin'!!

Hamilton Barnard · Post by **Hamilton Barnard** » 28 May 2001 1:35 pm

I don't like G12T-75s in a Marshall, let alone for steel guitar! You're looking at flabby bottom end and weak mids.

I can't see how they would ever sound good.

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